Flora of North America species comparison

usually prostrate or weakly ascending, sometimes erect, 0–20 cm, internodes often concealed by stipules, densely strigose-strigulose.

obscured by stipules and leaf bases.

2–13 cm;

stipules sometimes connate-sheathing at proximal nodes, 2–13 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets (1–)5–21, blades elliptic to obovate or oblanceolate, 3–20 mm, apex obtuse to acute, surfaces strigose.

0.8–4 cm;

stipules distinct, 1–1.5 mm, submembranous becoming papery;

leaflets 7–11, blades obovate-cuneate to oblong-elliptic, 1–5 mm, apex obtuse or subacute, surfaces silvery-strigulose.

2–13-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis (0.5–)1–6.5 cm in fruit;

bracts 2.5–8 mm;

bracteoles 0–2.

1–3-flowered, flowers ascending;

axis 0.1–0.2 cm in fruit;

bracts 0.6–0.8 mm;

bracteoles 0.

ascending, (1–)2–15(–20) cm.

axillary, 0.2–0.4 cm.

0.6–2.5 mm.

1–2.5 mm.

10.3–27(–28) mm;

calyx usually purplish, cylindric, campanulate, or cylindro-campanulate, 6.3–14.2 mm, strigose, tube (3.4–)5.8–13.2 mm, lobes subulate, 1.1–3.7(–4.5) mm;

corolla usually pink-purple, rarely white;

banner recurved through 40°;

keel 8–23.6 mm.

9–12 mm;

calyx campanulate to subcylindric, 3.3–4.5 mm, strigulose, tube 2.2–3.8 mm, lobes subulate, 0.5–1.3 mm;

corolla pink-purple, keel maculate;

banner recurved through 45°;

keel apex bluntly deltate.

readily deciduous, ascending, green, sometimes mottled, usually incurved, crescentic, mostly dorsiventrally compressed, 15–40 × 5–12 mm, unilocular, distinctly beaked, fleshy becoming stiffly leathery or subligneous, walls much less than 1 mm thick, strigose.

ascending to spreading, greenish becoming stramineous, oblong-ellipsoid, laterally compressed, 4.5–5.5 × 2–2.5 mm, thinly fleshy becoming stiffly papery, densely strigulose.

42–70.

4–9.

= 22.